Originally Posted By RoadTrip I recently came home from a week in the hospital, and once again I experienced Nurse Crush. I've rarely been hospitalized (the last time was about 40 years ago), but it seems like Nurse Crush is almost inevitable. Nurses are taking care of you at a time when you are feeling very vulnerable. You make a connection just based on the fact that they have so much to do with making you feel decent. It also seems that there is ALWAYS one nurse that is both very attentive and quite pretty. I love my wife more than anything, but I think one Nurse Crush is pretty much required any time a guy is hospitalized. Has anyone else here experienced Nurse Crush, or am I just some kind of hospital pervert? I also wonder about women who are hospitalized… without Nurse Crush the experience must be much more difficult for women than it is for men. Any comments?
Originally Posted By MissCandice Well, first of all you ARE pretty pervy Trippy. No offense, lol. When I was in the hospital for weeks and weeks at a time the first time I was sick I had a very very handsome doctor. I did look forward to his visits. Aren't nurses the greatest? I had some of the most attentive nurses who took really good care of me. Some of them were cute but I managed to not get crushes on them
Originally Posted By RoadTrip <<Aren't nurses the greatest? I had some of the most attentive nurses who took really good care of me.>> Yes, they really are. Nurses provide at least 95% of the care when you are in the hospital. They make sure that both your medical and basic human needs (cleanliness, thirst, etc.) are taken care of. Plus they give you your pain and sleeping meds. What more could you want??
Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy RT, I hope you didn't go to an all-boys boarding school---I think a guy like you would burst! ;-)
Originally Posted By RoadTrip ^^^ That's how I knew (and my wife knew) I was REALLY sick. For over two months I had absolutely no desire for romance. I also had virtually no appetite for food, and lost about 16 pounds in 6 weeks. Fortunately, all of my appetites have returned!! My doctor says that for the next two weeks I should really gorge myself… eat anything and everything that I want. I wonder if that applies to my other appetite too… ;-)
Originally Posted By DVC_dad Being that my wife is a physician, (yes I think this is the first time I have mentioned that) I must admit that I have oft times thought quite the opposite of many nurses, but I will hold my tongue as someday I am sure my very life will probably be in the hands of a justly qualified nurse. I just don't appreciate the ones that think they know this or know that, and second guess the docs, when 4 years of undergrad, 4 years of med school, and 3 years of residency is sort of hard to "clep." EEEEKS! Wow that sort of sounds like sour grapes doesn't it? Didn't mean for it too, there are some awesome nurses out there!!!
Originally Posted By RoadTrip DVC_dad... I understand where you are coming from. Every nurse I had made it VERY clear that all care instructions originated with my doctors (I had 3 assigned to my case). At times this even seemed rather irritating... when I asked for a Tums or some other antacid I was told that one of my Doctors would have to approve it before I could get it. Yes, even for over-the-counter stuff.
Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy <For over two months I had absolutely no desire for romance.> Dang man, you about wasted away to nuttin'! <My doctor says that for the next two weeks I should really gorge myself… eat anything and everything that I want. I wonder if that applies to my other appetite too…> LOL! The Trippy we know and love has returned...
Originally Posted By DlandJB I've been hospitalized too many times, and I can't say that I've ever had a crush on any of the male nurses (we seemed to have a lot of male nurses). But there is always a lot of time in the hospital when you have to pretty much abandon your personal privacy and it isn't the most romantic place to be. My younger sister works with nurses often because of her work as a hospice social worker. She says that guys do get crushes on them because they like the idea of a woman that is there to take care of them and make them feel better. She says that many marriages don't last for nurses because their husbands can have over inflated expectations of being cared for, and when they get off work, after these back to back 12 hour shifts, nurses don't feel like having to take care of others on their time off and would like someone to take care of them for a change. This is just her opinion, but I thought it was interesting.
Originally Posted By bloona <<wonder if that applies to my other appetite too… ;-)>> we'll know where you are ( and what youre doing) if there's no posts from you for a while then!
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORDDU: Oh, what a topic to identify with! Even as we post, I have an incredible crush on a particular witch-doctor here in Morva. I have to admit I look for excuses to visit his modest little hovel on the outskirts of the marshes. Sometimes I think he must see through my many visits. But--thus far--he hasn't exactly turned me away. ORGOCH: 'Course not! Long as yer willin' ta pay fer 'services rendered', why should he cut off his main meal ticket--less'n he gits ta the point where he runs outta sacks ta put over yer ugly face!!!
Originally Posted By trailsend When I saw the topic title "Nurse Crush?" and the originator was RoadTrip, I just thought, "Oh my. I'm about to read X rated LP posting." Let me doctor, or "nurse" you, I should say, in this way. The fact that you had a nurse crush meant the "other habit" you so fondly refer to over and over on LP is slowing creeping back into it's proper place. I'm sure "nurse crush" alerted a certain area that you weren't dead yet. Fantasy man, fantasy! I will not worry about you any more. You're fine.
Originally Posted By peeaanuut I have had nurse crush for 8 years now. SOon its gonna be nurse marriage.
Originally Posted By chickendumpling Well this is quite the little confessional, isn't it? I understand the *nurse crush* syndrome. After all, you are the big lion and they helped take the thorn out of your paw. I will confess to having a crush on a surgeon who took care of me years ago. Okay. Two surgeons. But I was young and very impressionable.
Originally Posted By RoadTrip <<I will confess to having a crush on a surgeon who took care of me years ago. Okay. Two surgeons. But I was young and very impressionable.>> LOL!!
Originally Posted By t1lersm0m <<I also wonder about women who are hospitalized… without Nurse Crush the experience must be much more difficult for women than it is for men.>> Who said all nurses are women?
Originally Posted By RoadTrip <<Who said all nurses are women?>> I know not all are... in fact my brother-in-law is an RN. In my experience though they are rather few and far between.
